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This book explores the urban, cosmopolitan sensibilities of Urdu poetry written in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Lucknow, which was the center of a flourishing Indo-Islamic culture. Ruth Vanita analyzes Rekhti, a type of Urdu poetry distinguished by a female speaker and a focus on women's lives, and shows how it became a catalyst for the transformation of the love poem.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Gender, Sex, and the City
• Subtitle: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India, 1780-1870
• Author: Ruth Vanita
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 296
• EAN: 9780230340640
• ISBN: 0230340644
• ID: 04554040
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 596 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 162 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. February 2012

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